On
the Trail of John Muir (On the Trail... Part of a series
of guides following key figures and themes, this book looks
at the life and work of John Muir, who made the US go green
was a trailblazer of world conservation, and was voted Man of
the Millennium in the US. It features information on the trusts
and organizations continuing his work, boasting thousands of
members in Britain and the US, and draws on his books, articles,
letters and diaries. The authoress is an authority on Muir and
a world traveller who set herself on the trail of John Muir
in order to write the book, and the book includes insights into
a hero of world conservation.
John Muir.

The
Wilderness Journeys: "My Boyhood and... Youth", "First
Summer in the Sierra", "1000 Mile Walk", "Stickeen",
"Travels in Alaska". The name of John Muir has come
to stand for the protection of wild land and wilderness in both
American and Britain. Born in Dunbar in the east of Scotland
in 1838, Muir is famed as the father of American conservation,
and as the first person to promote the idea of national parks.
Combining acute observation with a sense of inner discovery,
Muir's writings of his travels through some of the greatest
landscapes on Earth, including the Carolinas, Florida, Alaska
and those lands which were to become the great National Parks
of Yosemite and the Sierra Valley, raise an awareness of nature
to a spiritual dimension. These journals provide a marriage
of scientific survey and natural history. This collection, including
the never-before-published "Stickeen", presents the
best of Muir's writings. He is the author of "The Mountains
of California", "Our National Parks", "The
Yosemite" and "Steep Trails". John
Muir.